CEBU CITY—At least 75 percent of Grade 3 students in Central Visayas still do not know how to read or have low reading comprehension. Dr. Salustiano Jimenez, regional director of the ...

Author E.D. Hirsch Jr. argues that inadequate theories of reading are as much to blame for the popularity of "drill-and-kill" lessons in schools as the No Child Left Behind Act.

This reading comprehension series is targeted to students seeking to augment their reading and comprehension skills with free original fiction and non-fiction stories from the second to eighth ...

However, if we are serious about improving reading – and education outcomes for children at large – we might be better off if we stopped testing reading in third grade rather than started it.

In the past, third-graders only had to demonstrate basic reading comprehension skills. Although three in four of the state’s third-graders passed the exam on the first try, the average passing ...

Reading for comprehension struggles Equal Education’s Noncedo Madubedube, a member of the panel, said the findings reinforce previous research showing that over 80% of Grade 3 and 4 pupils ...